Curtis Whitear is a documentary filmmaker and editor from Bountiful, Utah, now living in New York City.

Most recently he was the editor and co-writer of Inheritance, a feature documentary which was shot over eleven years in rural Ohio dealing with addiction and generational poverty in America. The film premiered at Slamdance where it won the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary, and it is now showing at festivals around the world.

His feature documentary, Delusions of Grandeur, about artist Dustin Yellin’s dream to repurpose a supertanker as the world’s largest sculpture, is now in production.

Curtis is also the creator of Childhood Delusions Film Festival, a film festival for adults who made movies as children, which was recently featured in The New Yorker.